Barrel-setting-up form.



No. 654,407. Patented luly 24,. |900. A. C. ALUYKX.

BARREL SETTING-UP F0 RM.

(Application filed Aug. 21

(No Model.)

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IN VEJVTOR.

WITNESSES.

PATNT @El ALBERT C. LUYCKX, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

BARRELA-SETTINe-UP Fout/ll.l

SPECIFICATION l forming part of Letters Patent No. 654,407', dated July 24, 1

Application filed August 2l, 1899.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT C. LUYCKX, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Setting-upForm for the Making of Barrels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in setting-up-forms, and is composed of two parts or forms, made of wood or other suitable material, the main or principal part consisting of a drum and the accompanying form of a rack. The drum is about the height and shape of a barrehmade up of fourseparate quarters, with quarter-heads and guides attached thereto, having three crozes cut in the convex side thereof, with three iron bands fitted in said crozes and an iron band at each side of said crozes, said quarters being each fastened firmly to a slide by means of a bolt, which said slide is in vturn secured by screws partially driven into a center post, the center post having wedges at its top and bottom on its four sides. The center post with wedges and slides I referto as the expanden The rack is about three-fourths the height of the drum and consists of two parts, each having three circular bands, of wood or other suitable material, secured to three or more legs, which parts are joined by hinges and clamps.

The object of my invention is to supply forms which will afford facilities for the rapid construction of barrels, and which will at the same time embrace barrels of various sizes. I attain these objects by the method illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an outside view of the complete' invention. Fig. 2 is a plan View. Fig; 3 is a vertical cross-sectional view of Fig. 2 on the line 3 3. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the slide F. Fig. 5 is a plan View of the rack. v

A represents the drum; B, the center post; C, the quarter-heads; D, the guides; E, the wedges; F, the slides; VGr, the bolts holding the slides to the center post; I-I, the screws upon which the slides move in the slits f and` the inclines g; I, the outer bands of iron; J, the croze; K, therack, L, the hinges; M, the clamp, and IN` the band ends, to which are fastened the hinges.

The center post B has on its four sides the Serial No. 727,865. (No model.)

Wedges E, fastened by glue or screws. To the center post are secured the slides F by the 'screws H, the said slides having inclines g, the

ene on the outer and the other on the inner side, and the slits f, running through from the outer to the inner sides--all for the purpose of expanding and contracting the drum. The quarters forming the drum have the crozes J cut on their convex sides in the center and at equal distance from each end. Said crozes after theiron bands are inserted are about the width and depth of a barrelhoop. In the crozes are secured iron bands which may be fastened by turning the edges over the sides of the quarters, as shown in the drawings, or nailed. The purpose of said crozes is to hold the inner barrel-hoops,

and the purpose of" the iron bands is to clench the nails driven through the staves and said hoops. On each side of each croze are strips of iron about one inch in width, the uses of which are to clench nails driven through the outer hoops and staves of barrels. The quarters are secured to the quarter-heads C by nails and to the slides F by the bolts Gr. Upon the outer upper portion of the quarter-heads are glued or otherwise fastened the guides D. In the crozes are placed barrel-hoops of the required circumference, the hoops fitting in tightly, their outside, after the drum has been expanded to the required size, coming hush with the outside of the drum. The center post is pressed downward, as represented by the arrow, the wedges E pressing the slides F, together with the quarters, outwardly, thus expanding the drum as may be required. The slits f permit the center post to be pushed upward and downward upon the screw H to the full lenth of said slits, and the inclines g, by force of the pressure of the wedges E exerted through the center post B, admit of the expansion of the drum. Around the drum, after the drum has been expanded, is placed the rack K, which may be from one to three inches greater in diameter than the drum contracted. The rack is made in two parts, which parts are joined by the hinges L, the hinges being fastened to the bands ends N and one of the legs with the clamps M, which are secured to the other ends of the bands and are used to draw together the bands for the purpose of IOO drawing the rack tightly around the veneer or staves and of quickly removing the rack. The rack is loosely joined by the clamps around the drum, leaving an intervening space be tween the drum and rack for the purpose of holding veneer or staves of barrels. Around the veneer or staves the rack is drawn tightly by means of the clamp M for the purpose of holding the veneer or staves in place during the operation of making a barrel, after which operation the clamps are loosened and the rack removed.

The guides D are for the purpose of keeping the quarter-heads level with each other.

It is obvious that the drum may be contracted to its original position by drawing What I claim, and desire to secure by Letl ters Patent, is-

In the contrivance consisting of the center post B the wedges E the slides F the inclines g the slits f and the screws H for the purpose of expanding and contracting the barrel-setting-up form substantially as described.

ALBERT C. LUYCKX. Witnesses:

SAMUEL C. MUMFORD, HUGH M. MoCoRMicK.- 

